Clare Lawrence

Biographic Data

ID6507937
NAMEClare Lawrence
GIVEN NAMESClare
FAMILY NAMELawrence
SIGNATURELAWRENCE C
AFFILIATIONSBishop Grosseteste University
ORCID0000-0003-0563-6385
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Why write? Creative writing in the classroom explored from a professional writing perspective

    Clare LawrenceARTICLEEnglish in Education2026

    Creative writing in the subject English classroom occupies an ambiguous position. Time and practical constraints mean that it may be positioned as something to be “mastered” in the pursuit of examination marks. Yet writing creatively as an activity goes far beyond assessed outputs. This paper explores creative writing with professional writers to articulate what the activity may bring to these proponents, in the hope of sharing this perspective w…

  • The Woman of Colour

    Clare Lawrence, Sheine Peart et al.ARTICLEEnglish in Education2025

    This paper reports on a short project undertaken with student English teachers during their one year Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) teaching course that considered the potential inclusion of the novella The Woman of Colour into their teaching. The research considers how the student teachers received the text and the value, issues and questions that they felt it might bring to their teaching. It reflects on short lesson segments cre…

  • Responding to pupil led tangential thinking

    Edward Collyer, George W Norton et al.ARTICLEEnglish in Education2022

    This paper considers alternative ways of teaching Romantic poetry to post-sixteen English Literature pupils in England. It explores how practitioners can value tangents developed by pupils’ independent thinking when pupils are given the freedom to develop their own ideas. It reflects on a lesson planned to respond to a tangent developed by the class in a previous session; that William Blake’s “The Tyger”, to a contemporary reader, explores the 21…

  • “Howling at the scrabble-board”

    Clare Lawrence, Celia et al.ARTICLEEnglish in Education2021

    There has, to date, been little discussion of how autism may affect the experience of the reading of fiction for pupils in the classroom, other than through a deficit model. One of the researchers in this study (“Celia”) is training to be a secondary school English teacher and identifies as autistic. Her experience provides an enriched understanding of the subject and enables the study to be undertaken in line with best practice for autism resear…

  • I've got something to tell you. I'm dyslexic”

    Open AccessLisa Jacobs, Edward Collyer et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2021Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Is Lennie a monster? A reconsideration of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in a 21st century inclusive classroom context

    Open AccessClare LawrenceARTICLEPalgrave Communications2020

    Of Mice and Men remains a staple text in schools in both the United States and United Kingdom, where both neuro-typical and disabled pupils encounter it. The character of Lennie has learning difficulties and also—as identified by some researchers—exhibits many characteristics of autism. Although the novella is hailed as a modern classic, there are aspects in Steinbeck’s portrayal of Lennie as un-human, ‘othered’ from the other characters in the b…

  • I can’t understand a word he says’

    Fauxparl’ ‘Fauxparl, ‘Fauxparl’ et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2020

    This article describes a cooperative venture by an autistic individual and a visual artist to articulate autistic dysfluency, using the medium of a short film. This employs a first-person narrative supported by collage and computer-generated imagery to depict an example of failed communication as experienced through the eyes of an autistic pupil. The combination of visuals and audio aids in depicting the autistic individual's consciousness whilst…